Charles E. Coughlin Quotes

We do not believe in government through the voting booth. The Spanish national will was never freely expressed through the ballot box.

Moammar Gaddafi, who has called himself the 'Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya,' should go down in history with the Emperor Bokassa and Idi Amin as a grotesque reminder of why people have the right to change their government.

Rule with an iron first will inevitably come to an end.

The ballot has failed us, but the bullet has not.

People who live in the post-totalitarian system know only too well that the question of whether one or several political parties are in power, and how these parties define and label themselves, is of far less importance than the question of whether or not it is possible to live like a human being.

The spectacle which confronts all Europe today is a great conflict between democracy and dictatorship.

Speech has never defeated fascism.

The price of toppling Gadhafi will be steep. But Libyans will topple him, and in doing so, they will bring down with him the castles of fear our dictators thought they had fortified.

Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy.

Those who disagree with the dictator's plan have no other means to carry on than to defeat the despot by force of arms.

It can't happen here is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.

Freedom is contagious. That's why despots fear it so much.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

A State infinitely worse than that which the most inflamed Zealot, the most violent Republican or Enthusiast even pretended to dread before the Rebellion commenced.

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

I hate to say it but I was glad when they shot him. I don’t believe in terrorism or assassination but he could have become the American dictator.

Capitalism was reasonably content under Hitler, happy under Mussolini, very happy under Franco and delirious under General Pinochet

When a dictatorship controls the political life of a country, responsible opposition cannot develop, and dissent is driven underground and toward the extreme. And to draw attention away from their social and economic failures, dictators place blame on other countries and other races, and stir the hatred that leads to violence. This status quo of despotism and anger cannot be ignored or appeased, kept in a box or bought off.

Tyranny must be opposed at the start. Autocracy, once secured in the saddle, is difficult to dislodge.

Finance capital curtails democratic rights, narrowing the scope of democracy and paving the way for the open and violent dictatorship of fascist rule.

When you have an autocratic regime you have no guarantee that the regime will last beyond the autocrat.

If I were a citizen of Russia, I would resist this communist dictatorship as vigorously as I have endeavored to resist the encroachment upon our democratic institutions in America. I hold that government of one class, denying the other classes the right to participate is tyranny.

This is the only country in the world where a dictator will be allowed to sit among a democratically elected Congress. Everywhere else evil dictators go into exile.

German history shows us that sometimes dictators can only be stopped by force.

An oppressive government is worse than a man-eating tiger.